#flint's inability to heal reflected I think in his inability to confront his love for silver

[hylialeia]

anyway what sucks is I like media that explores how destructive and poisonous cycles of abuse are and how an individual response to trauma can result not in healing but further abuse. but I also like media that looks at oppression and injustice and says this has to stop and you should rage against the violence done to you and people like you and you should burn it down rather than let it continue.

#reasons why black sails fucks: it manages both of these simultaneously and does them well #flint was not good... but the system was evil #flint's inability to heal reflected I think in his inability to confront his love for silver #so instead he projected it onto their partnership in the war against what he hated because that made it easier #and when silver says don't make me choose between a war and a wife you will not like an answer #flint hears 'between you and madi' #because if he's not the war what is he #and all that's just happening on the individual level! on the larger scale the narrative is so clear about the injustice #and how it must be defied even if it can't be immediately overturned and destroyed #julius's 'no one changes the world all at once' as a solemn admition not of defeat but understanding #fight back but be prepared to fight for a long time and to remember what it's for #and for silver it's love for madi and he won't sacrifice that #while flint can't connect it to love anymore... because if he did it would mean admitting loving silver #'you fight because it's the only state in which you can function' #yeah...